oralness

English

Etymology

oral +‎ -ness

Noun

oralness (uncountable)

1. The quality or condition of being oral.
   • 2013, Julio Ortega, Poetics of Change: The New Spanish-American Narrative‎^[1]:

     Whereas the Chinese spectacle implied a world of objects, a happy confusion of changing characters and masks, the Black spectacle implies a theatrical oralness.